Have Your Cake and Smell Like It Too
Based on your responses to our LavenderandSpice.com Quiz, you are most likely to find a fragrance that matches your personality and desires from the decadent scents of cake, chocolate, caramel, ice cream, red fruits, honey, and other delectable materials.
The gourmand fragrance category of sweet and edible notes came out of a longer tradition of amber (labdanum, benzoin, vanilla) and spice (formerly “Oriental) scents with clear culinary applications. Think cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, saffron, etc.
Thierry Mugler’s Angel (1992) by perfumers Olivier Cresp and Yves de Chiris is credited with launching the modern gourmand trend. It opens with an edible blast of mint, lavender, and citrus that moves through a rich coffee heart before dropping into a long sweet drydown of tonka, vanilla, caramel, chocolate, and musk. Many of the deep, sweet notes had already been employed for many decades. The shift was in the introduction of newer notes (coffee, chocolate, caramel) that were explicitly edible.
If you have ever wondered why perfume can’t just smell like your favorite bakery, know that it can!
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Why Have Your Cake and Smell Like It Too Is the Scent for You
Cancer influences individuals under its sign to retain things, sometimes too much for their health. They are encouraged to stay active and guard against emotional eating, which means cut out the sweets and eat whole grains and unprocessed foods. This is the scent for those who want to eat their cake but shouldn’t, so at least they can smell like it.
This scent is someone who wants to share and celebrate sensuality, but not necessarily dive into sexuality. This is the sexy coffee date, not the whirlwind tryst, the confetti cupcake, light, happy, sweet, with a whipped buttery goodness and just the right amount of vanilla to bring depth.
You smell sweet and inviting at the beach, amusement park, or heading to the club with your girlfriends, planning on dancing, but going home with your friends (you never know).
Happy smells like fresh-baked cookies and sexy like passion fruit.
Depending on the hour, you can be found drinking your daily smoothie, a classic Coke, or a buttery Chard.